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Podcast: The Reading Instruction Show
Episode: THREE VIEWS OF TEACHING: TRANSMISSION, TRANSACTION, AND TRANSFORMATION
Description: Good teaching starts with an operational definition of teaching. There are three common views of what constitutes teaching: teaching as transmission, teaching as transaction, and teaching as transformation (Miller, 1996).Teaching as TransmissionFrom this perspective, teaching is the act of transmitting knowledge from Point A (teacher’s head) to Point B (students’ heads). This is a teacherÂ-centered approach in which the teacher is the dispenser of knowledge, the arbitrator of truth, and the final evaluator of learning. A teacher’s job from this perspective is to supply students with a designated body of knowledge or set...